Cohost Greg Gutfeld did his part for Dear Leader by suggesting to Carlson that the reason there was such an outcry in the media over Trump’s comments was because “the media is blaming Putin for Hillary’s loss.” Gutfeld smirked hideously as he continued, “And they’re constantly demanding their pound of flesh and nothing will ever be enough.”

Carlson was too interested in using the moment to foment anti-immigrant bigotry to go after the media:

CARLSON: I’m not a shrink so I don’t fully understand it. I mean, I don’t think Russia is our close friend or anything like that. I think of course they tried to interfere in our affairs. They have for a long time. Many countries do. Some more successfully than Russia, like Mexico, which is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate. So those are all concerns.

There was hearty, appreciative laughter at Carlson’s remarks. So he continued, unchallenged.

CARLSON: I honestly don’t understand why we need to believe that Russia is the sort of primary issue of American political life. That seems kind of nuts to me. Maybe you disagree with Trump, which is totally fine. But the idea that where you are on Russia is the defining question – like, that’s kind of demented, actually. ‘Cause it’s like number 115 on the list of real concerns. At least in my mind. Maybe I’m the demented one.

Yeah, I saw this on another web site (Alternet maybe?). It’s a predictable, kneejerk Trump TV reaction to protect President Crackpot. However, watching Fox News today I’m seeing some cracks form in the Trump Worship Committee. I’m sure The Donald thought his mission to disrupt all things governmental would protect him from sucking up to an adversary like Putin (he hopes to do bu$ine$$ with someday). But it’s a proverbial bridge too far and even many Republicans are disgusted with our corrupt scumbag of a president in this instance.

Enjoy the moment because as soon as Trump TV can perform a clean up of Trump’s latest mess it’ll be back to usual with Trump TV planting kisses all over Trump’s buttocks.